Enterprise Architect

The League of Companies Group; Centurion; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Part time

Job summary

The League of Companies Group is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect for a 12-month contract based in Springs, Gauteng. You will lead enterprise-wide architecture direction across business and technology domains, translating strategy into actionable roadmaps and governance.

You will collaborate with CIO-level stakeholders, manage architecture artefacts, and oversee initiatives spanning ERP, CRM, cloud, data, and security to enable measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience across enterprise architecture and senior technology architecture roles.
• Experience operating as an Enterprise Architect within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of business, application, data, integration, infrastructure and security architecture.
• Experience developing enterprise-wide target architectures and multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Strong governance and technology portfolio management experience.
• Experience working across ERP, CRM and enterprise application environments.
• Knowledge of cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data platforms, APIs and integration architectures.
• Ability to engage credibly with CIO-level stakeholders and executives.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the organisation’s Enterprise Architecture strategy, principles, standards and roadmap.
• Develop and govern current-state, transition-state and target-state architectures.
• Translate business strategy into enterprise technology direction and investment priorities.
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture governance, standards and decision frameworks.
• Drive alignment across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity and technology platforms.
• Assess the existing technology landscape and identify duplication, technical debt and architectural risk.
• Develop technology roadmaps supporting modernisation, transformation and growth.
• Guide major technology initiatives to ensure alignment with architecture principles.
• Evaluate strategic technology platforms and vendor solutions.
• Facilitate architecture decisions across business, IT, security, data and operations.
• Support portfolio optimisation and interoperability across platforms.
• Provide architectural oversight across major programmes and transformation initiatives.
• Maintain enterprise architecture artefacts, models, principles and standards.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Cloud & Security Architecture

ERP & CRM

Architecture Governance

Strategic Roadmapping

Job description

We’re Hiring: Enterprise Architect | 12-Month Contract | Hybrid – Springs, Gauteng

The League of Companies is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect for a 12-month contract with a large, established manufacturing organisation based in Springs, Gauteng.

This is a true Enterprise Architecture role. We are looking for someone who can operate across the organisation’s business and technology landscape, establish enterprise-wide architecture direction, and ensure that technology investment, platforms and transformation initiatives remain aligned to business strategy.

The successful candidate will work across a complex environment spanning enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, data, integration, digital platforms and operational technology.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the organisation’s Enterprise Architecture strategy, principles, standards and roadmap
• Develop and govern current-state, transition-state and target-state architectures
• Translate business strategy and capabilities into enterprise technology direction and investment priorities
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture governance, standards and decision frameworks
• Drive alignment across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity and technology platforms
• Assess the existing technology landscape and identify duplication, technical debt, architectural risk and rationalisation opportunities
• Develop technology roadmaps supporting modernisation, transformation and business growth
• Guide major technology initiatives to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles
• Evaluate strategic technology platforms, architectural options and vendor solutions
• Facilitate architecture decisions across business, IT, security, data, infrastructure and operational teams
• Support application and technology portfolio optimisation
• Ensure interoperability and integration across legacy and modern platforms
• Provide architectural oversight across major programmes and transformation initiatives
• Maintain enterprise architecture artefacts, models, principles and standards
• Work closely with senior business and technology stakeholders to ensure architecture enables measurable business outcomes

What we are looking for

• 10+ years’ experience across enterprise architecture and senior technology architecture roles
• Demonstrable experience operating specifically as an Enterprise Architect within a large, complex organisation
• Strong understanding of business, application, data, integration, infrastructure and security architecture
• Experience developing enterprise-wide target architectures and multi-year technology roadmaps
• Strong architecture governance and technology portfolio management experience
• Experience working across complex ERP, CRM and enterprise application environments
• Sound understanding of cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data platforms, APIs and integration architectures
• Experience assessing legacy environments and defining modernisation and rationalisation strategies
• Ability to engage credibly with CIO-level stakeholders, business executives, programme teams and technical specialists
• Strong commercial and business understanding — not technology architecture in isolation
• Experience within *manufacturing, industrial or similarly complex enterprise environments* would be highly advantageous
• *TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification would be advantageous

Contract: 12 months

Location: Springs, Gauteng

Working model: Hybrid

This role is suited to an Enterprise Architect who can see the whole enterprise, connect business strategy to technology strategy, and provide the architectural governance and direction required across a complex technology estate.